A City on Mars
Subtitle: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2023-11-07
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781984881724
Notes: Source title: A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: A Homesteader’s Guide to the Red Planet?
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: A Preamble on Space Myths
pagenum: 21; label: Part I
title: Caring for the spacefaring; label: 2
title: Suffocation, Bone Loss, and Flying Pigs : The Science of Space Physiology
pagenum: 43; label: 3
title: Space Sex and Consequences Thereof
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: Spacefarer Psychology : In Which the Only Thing We’re Sure of Is That Astronauts Are Liars
pagenum: 89; label: Nota Bene
title: Rocketry Goes to the Movies, or, Space Capitalism in Days of Yore, Part 1
pagenum: 113; label: Part II
title: Spome, Spome on the Range : Where Will Humans Live Off-world?; label: 5
title: The Moon: Great Location, Bit of a Fixer-upper
pagenum: 121; label: 6
title: Mars: Landscapes of Poison and Toxic Skies, but What an Opportunity!
pagenum: 137; label: 7
title: Giant Rotating Space Wheels : Not Literally the Worst Option
pagenum: 148; label: 8
title: Worse Options
pagenum: 158; label: Nota bene
title: Space is the Place for Product Placement, or, Space Capitalism in Days of Yore, Part 2
pagenum: 167; label: Part III
title: Pocket Edens : How to Create a Human Terrarium That Isn’t All That Terrible; label: 9
title: Outputs and Inputs : Poop, Food, and “Closing the Loop”
pagenum: 173; label: 10
title: There’s No Place Like Spome : How to Build Outer-space Habitats
pagenum: 192; label: Nota Bene
title: the Mystery of the Tampon Bandolier
pagenum: 213; label: Part IV
title: Space Law for Space Settlements : Weird, Vague, and Hard to Change; label: 11
title: A Cynical History of Space
pagenum: 219; label: 12
title: The Outer Space Treaty : Great for Regulating Space Sixty Years Ago
pagenum: 234; label: 13
title: Murder in Space : Who Killed the Moon Agreement?
pagenum: 254; label: Nota Bene
title: Space Cannibalism From a Legal and Culinary Perspective
pagenum: 273; label: Part V
title: The Paths Forward : Bound for Moonsylvania?; label: 14
title: Commonsing the Cosmos
pagenum: 279; label: 15
title: Dividing the Sky
pagenum: 295; label: 16
title: The Birth of Space-states : Like the Birth of Space Babies, but Messier
pagenum: 309; label: Nota Bene
title: Violence in Antarctica, or, Happy Endings to Stabby Starts
pagenum: 329; label: Part VI
title: To Plan B or Not to Plan B : Space Society, Expansion, and Existential Risk; label: 17
title: There’s No Labor Pool on Mars : Outer Space as a Company Town
pagenum: 335; label: 18
title: How Big is Big? : Plan B Settlements Without Genetic or Economic Calamities
pagenum: 350; label: 19
title: Space Politics by Other Means : on the Possibility of Space War
pagenum: 359; label: 20
title: A Brief Coda on a Rarely Considered Alternative : Wait-and-Go-Nowhere
pagenum: 376; label: Nota Bene
title: Amusing Astronaut Names and the Soviet Tendency to Fuss Over Weird Details
pagenum: 378; label: Conclusion
title: of Hot Tubs and Human Destiny
pagenum: 380; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 389; title: Notes
pagenum: 391; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 401; title: Index
pagenum: 421